Why are pdf exports so large?

I created a slide show with keynote, exported the slides, they came out to be 5.4 Mb. I then exported the slide show to powerpoint and then did the same from powerpoint. The resulting slides were 984 kb? Umm, 5.4 Mb is way to large to be emailing around.

What setting did you use when exporting? You have three options: good, better, best. If good is still to big to email, you can open the .pdf in Preview, Save As and apply a Quartz Filter called Reduce File Size to bring it down a little more.

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